Andrea Tivadar
Liminal Spaces
Andrea Tivadar’s painting practice unfolds from a particular spatial sensitivity. Her works explore in-between situations in which forms, structures, and their relationship are not yet fixed but are still in the process of becoming. These shifting conditions can be understood as imprints of contemporary experience: images of a world in which stable systems are replaced by temporary configurations, and closed forms give way to open systems. The emphasis lies not on endpoints, but on the phases of development.
Tivadar’s works are connected to a tradition of painterly thinking that, by abandoning representation, places the medium’s own tools—color, form, surface, and rhythm—at the center. At the same time, these works do not reiterate the formal purity or autonomy of modernism; rather, they offer a contemporary reinterpretation of it. Harmonious structures coexist with transforming, fluid systems in which order and spontaneity operate as complementary forces.
A central concern of her artistic process is the creation and the maintenance of balance between control and release. The sculptures presented in the exhibition are grounded in deliberate construction while allowing the material to shape the form. In this sense, artistic intention and material behavior function equally as formative forces.
The rhythm of forms and colors does not convey a predetermined meaning; instead, it emerges through the encounter between the artwork and the viewer. In this intermediate space, abstraction functions not as explanation but as experience: it does not narrow meaning, but opens space for it to emerge.
Andrea Tivadar is a graduate of the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca and is one of the outstanding figures of Hungarian and Transylvanian art. Her works are regularly exhibited in key venues of the Hungarian and Romanian art scenes, as well as in Poland and Italy. This is her third exhibition is Erika Deák Gallery. In 2025, her first solo museum exhibition was held at the Satu Mare Museum of Fine Arts.
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Opening: 2026 February 12, Thursday, 6 PM
On view: 2026 February 13 - March 13
Open: Wednesday - Friday, 12:00 - 6:00 PM, and by appointment